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Video Game Industry Thread: Master Chief -- script delivery boy
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Am I interpreting this correctly?
I mean it seems there is a lack of shaders and the graphics chips are weak, somehow, Is that accurate?
Oh that's right, this is probably a consequence of people still annoyed about the Mass Effect thing, isn't it?
...I'm seriously considering just switching off ME3 right before the ending because I'm just so sick of the whole damn thing. (The neverending expelling of wind about the ending, I mean. The game itself is aces.)
If you think it is bad just watching it, you haven't seen anything until you experience it for yourself. I honestly can't fathom why anyone thought this would be a good idea and yet it exists.
But when you focus on just the games industry it is something EA (and other companies) should take notice of, because there's clearly enough people that are pissed off with EA's "bullshit", or at least the public perception of EA's "bullshit", to make themselves widely heard.
Kinda the same situation I'm in. Playing through ME3, enjoying the shit out of it, worried about getting to the ending because what if (gasp), I like it?
How would I feel about it? Because apparently it's objectively bad. If I like it, does that mean I'm just wrong? Or does it mean every over opinionated blowhard on the internet has blown this thing so out of proportion that they're just being silly by this point? Because going into the ME thread and seeing people saying the ending is objectively poor is just kinda crazy.
The specs weren't leaked. Unnamed 'devs' claimed that it wasn't as powerful, but other actual named devs with actual games in the works have said that it is quite powerful.
So, the question is who to believe.
We won't really know anything until Nintendo tells us themselves. This E3 should give us more actual information.
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None the less, you don't piss off the internet unless you want them to take it out on you in a convenient fashion. Pretty much what EA has learned.
I mean there are valid practices of EA's that people could complain about but I doubt many of them had anything to do with it.
If I know the internet, and I do, people raging about the ending heard about the poll and basically massed on it.
That being said, it is an internet poll, so I doubt anyone is going to lose sleep over it.
Well, Nintendo rarely actually tells the public specs for their consoles. We'll probably have to wait until it's released and someone manages to take it apart.
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I've actually heard that, outside of the Internet, opinions vary about it. And they don't get mad about it! Crazy, right? But at this point I won't know for sure if I would genuinely like it/hate it because of my own personal reaction or due to my subconscious wanting to rebel against all the griping.
This is true...
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I'm pleased with this part of it. People usually do shit like, "We understand your concerns," etc, but it's about time more people start standing up to say, "Stop whining you babies."
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EA monetizes BF3 a bit by adding weapon kit "shortcuts" that you can buy- War Crime.
Valve monetizes TF2- Little to no uproar, everyone still wants to kiss GabeN deep with tongue.
Pretty much, EA just needs to wait for the internet hivemind to focus its attention elsewhere. Its not like a significant number of people are going to stop buying EA games, even though they complain about the company.
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Starbucks did a similar thing when some people decided to use their share holder meeting to bully Starbucks' stance.
There is way too much hate going around. So yeah, good job EA and don't worry, you are not even close to the worse company.
I tend to say that of the Kinect in general.
True.
Also, past about the age of 16 I stopped caring about "specs". If the games are good, that's all that matters.
Did they really say this?
If so, high-five to a corporate sickburn.
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Did they really say this?
What the fuck has BP done to deserve this mention?
"You mean you have black people in your games!? Boycott!"
Discriminates against women/minorities, doesn't pay a living wage/helps its employees sign up for various government programs to help with costs, has a scam of a health insurance that is almost no better then being uninsured, bust unions, forces unpaid overtime, locks immigrants in, gets huge tax breaks from counties and towns for x number of years to build a supercenter that drives out small business and then closes that store the second the deal is up, moves one town/county over.
"I am frankly sick and tired of the abuse that those little Sims are objected to by millions every day."
That oil spill in the Gulf and how they responded wasn't taken too kindly over here.
Caused quite a shitstorm.
Spike Lee even did a pretty good documentary about it(and I usually hate his stuff).
Yeah. Wal-mart does some really shady shit.
Which is why I try not to shop there if I can help it.
But they were just trying to make some oil. I heard America likes oil. Give em a break, they're doing their best.
IIRC, the 360 was revealed the year it came out.
If none of you read The Consumerist at all (or haven't even heard of it before this), the site covers the whole gamut of consumer interests from shrinking food packaging (with price hikes) to Paypal regularly stealing money simply because it can to big banks fucking over people worldwide to, yes, video game companies who price gouge and nickel-and-dime. They cover everything. Bank of America, AT&T, Comcast, and others all get grilled month-in month-out on the site year after year; EA getting some nigh-meaningless "award" will do little to change that and it's not robbing any focus from "the real issues". But if every time some anti-consumer practice in the games industry is brushed off with "But there are far more important things to worry about!" then nothing will ever change.
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In this very thread no less.
The problem is that at the end of the day most of the gaming populace is lacking in conviction. So they'll complain and complain but when it actually comes to doing something about it...nothing.
I would like to point out that the named Dev is a director, which, while not an indication that they're technologically ignorant, doesn't necessarily put them in a position to be able to make judgement calls about hardware performance. I've heard enough stories from lead programmers about producers and directors who don't know a damn thing about the hardware when setting milestone deadlines to know that, just because you're in charge of a game, doesn't mean you know how anything works.